Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali

The early 1920s art run of surrealism was founded by Andre Breton, a French writer. Comp ard to other art groups or movements, surrealism center on evoking the unconscious in photograph. Members of this group showed immense importance in illustrating a more profound reality revealed by the unconscious forefront. closely of the surrealists have unusual portrayal of images in their images. They create visuals that go beyond mere painting to reach a pertly level of reality. This superior approach in creating a provocative image is derived from the surrealists day-dreams.The products of their subconscious mind combined with the concept of enigma or mystery have been their dream in producing eccentric but remarkable masterpieces (Artbeyondsight. com). One of the famous Surrealist painters who is well-known(a) for his bizarre ideas and eccentric behaviors was Salvador Dali. Most of his fine arts became and integral part in the betterment of the Surrealist aesthetic. His main objective was to materialize images of concrete irrationality with the most imperialistic fury of precision. More so, Dalis paintings illustrated dream-like images but these were treated with precision and handsome details that made the viewers enter a hallucinatory adorn. Dali named these paintings with dream and fantasy theme as hand-painted dream photographs. In these artworks, unusual view of images and the modification of a specific form into another completely new form were evident. Because of this composition, it appears that most of Dalis paintings defy the principle of Physics. He created images that stand for the irrational and un certain world of the dream (Artbeyondsight. om). In the painting sedulousness of Memory, Dali presented the unusual images of melted watches. Dali said that the elements present in this particular painting are nothing else, but the Camembert cheese of space and clipping tender, outlandish, caveman and critical-paranoiac (3d-dali. com, 2 008). This painting can be classified as a landscape painting, a self portrait or a still-life painting. It all depends on the viewers perception and knowledge on how to understand and interpret the painting.In terms of the visual elements exhibited, the background is a beach landscape charm the foreground consists of the strange images of three melted pocket watches, the rectangular box seat and an animal-like creature. The unusual objects created a mysterious effect while the realistic redness and coloring added a realness factor to the painting. At first glance, these whitethorn all seem meaningless and peculiar but if viewers would tactile sensation closely and try to find out the rationale for putting these elements to proposeher, they could get a better grasp of understanding of the paintings and the inner workings of Dalis mind.According to Robert Bradford, the bare, hard outline of the cliffs and the crystal light of the sky are there, but the empty, desert-like expanses of the painting are much closer to the topography of the min, to a dreamscape. The viewers anxiety is fermented precisely through the lack of clues of distance, of recognizable landmark, of time of day, of temperature-it could equally be as hot, or as cold as an unknown planet. We are in an arena of silence, a frozen nightmare, in which nothing moves or make a noise. (p. 146)Overall, the Persistence of Memory is an artwork that takes the viewers into a very interesting world wherein they are transported from the predictable realm of reality to a place filled with ambiguity and peculiarity. The techniques in coloring and brush strokes employed by Dali were conventional but it is the integrative aspects that stand out are the placement and the choice of objects displayed in the painting. This painting ingeniously juxtaposed the real with the make believe which are the native characteristics of Surrealism.References3d-dali.com. (2008). Salavador Dali Painitngs. Retrieved November 28 , 2008, from http//www.3d-dali.com/dali_paintings_analysis_interpretation.htmArtbeyondsight.com. (n.d.). Salvador Dali and Surrealism. Retrieved November 28, 2008, from http//www.artbeyondsight.org/ahtts/dali-read.shtmlRadford, R. (1997). Dali. London Phaidon Press Ltd.